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test for fixing resolution problems

i have seen around some xorg logs and have seen that the driver doesn't read modelines. then a gentoo user has found out that modifying 3 things in his kernel config has made the driver read once again the modelines. i've diffed the its settings and seen that on my config (modeline scan works for me fine) they were present. the settings are the following:

CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y

i suggest to the users that are having problems with the resolution to try out this settings and also to start the atieventsd service before starting xorg and see what happens.

while browsing again through the documented options of fglrx for xorg.conf it happened to find this one:

Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean"

Do not use EDID data for mode validation, but DDC is still used for monitor detection. This is different from Option "NoDDC". The default is: "off".
If the server is ignoring your modlines, set this option to "on" and try again.

the qbs stuff is not to be worried about.
googling about the error seems to point to a bug that has been marked as resolved in 8.34.
maybe there was a little regression in the code that brought out the preinitdal and this bug again and the devs have decided to mask it by removing support for some modelines... when the release notes tell that modelines could not be read there is surely something behind this.
mine is only a guess but these 2 bugs were fixed about that release and now similar things come out after installing. maybe it's not a fortunate coincidence.